Can observational training substitute motor training in preventing backward balance loss after an unexpected slip during walking?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 843-852

  Bhatt, T ^a   Pai, Y C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VELOCITY; VIDEOTAPE; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; OBSERVATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WALKING;

EID: 39149129937     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00720.2007     Document Type: Article

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